Maurice Frydman

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Maurice Frydman, aka Swami Bharatananda (born 1900, Poland - died 1976, India), was a Polish Jew who spent his life in India.

He was a Polish refugee who fled Warsaw to India during the 1940s. While in India, Frydman lived in Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram, where he made the spinning wheel that Gandhi himself used until the end of his life. He was also close to Nehru. He had been associated with Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Frydman edited and translated Nisargadatta Maharaj's tape-recorded conversations into the the English-language book I Am That.